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Article #8703Re: Formatting 1.2 Meg disks to 360K question
From: Russ Poffenberger
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 16:51
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 16:51
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In article <510@cpqhou.UUCP> thomasr@cpqhou.UUCP (Thomas Rush) writes:
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> I have had trouble formatting fresh-out-of-the-box 1.2 meg
>disks to 360 K. What could cause this?
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>thomas.
There has been a recent discussion regarding this subject just recently on
the net.
It appears as though the coating on 1.2M disks is such that it need a stronger
magnetic field in order to be written to reliably. 360K drives do not have
this capability.
The other thing is, why whould you spend the money to get high density disks,
just to format them to 360K?
Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen
1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276
San Jose, Ca. 95110
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!sjsca4!molehill!poffen From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Formatting 1.2 Meg disks to 360K question Message-ID: <1990Jan16.165120.10401@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 16 Jan 90 16:51:20 GMT References: <3226@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> <7715@nigel.udel.EDU> <1479@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> <510@cpqhou.UUCP> Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA Lines: 25